"The 1st China Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition is a grand assembly of Chinese ceramic artists, and an all-round show of the academic trends of contemporary Chinese ceramic art. This exhibition is geared at the whole country to solicit works, totally 963 works (including from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). After fair and strict preliminary assessment and review, 294 works are finally selected, and besides, influential traditional ceramic artist and members of the Ceramics Art Committee of CAA are specially invited to submit their works, too. All these works, with high-quality artistic level, show the satisfactory achievements of present-day Chinese ceramic art in such areas as spirituality, innovation and artistic expression." (Source from The 1st China Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition Catalogue)